Stock market update: Fertilisers stocks up as market rises

NEW DELHI: Fertilisers stocks were trading higher on Wednesday at 10:04AM

Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chem(up 2.58%), Agro Phos(up 1.87%), Madhya Bharat Agro Products(up 0.84%), National Fertilizer(up 0.72%), Sikko Industries(up 0.69%), Deepak Fertilizers & Petrochemicals(up 0.61%), Aries Agro(up 0.60%), Bohra Industries(up 0.54%), Southern Petrochemicals Industries(up 0.41%) and Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers (up 0.27%) were among the top gainers.

Rama Phosphates(down 2.30%), Fertilizers & Chemicals Tranvancore(down 0.84%), ZUARIAGRO(down 0.66%), Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 0.63%), Coromandel International(down 0.42%), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 0.35%), KRISHANA(down 0.28%), Khaitan Chemicals & Fertilizers(down 0.26%) and Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals(down 0.16%) were among the top losers.

The NSE Nifty50 index was trading 27.1 points up at 17749.4, while the 30-share BSE Sensex was up 53.74 points at 60211.46 at around 10:04AM.

Divis Laboratories(up 4.22%), Adani Enterprises(up 1.6%), Dr Reddys Laboratories(up 1.29%), Bajaj Auto(up 1.19%), Eicher Motors(up 1.14%), Grasim Industries(up 0.98%), HDFC Bank(up 0.72%), Cipla(up 0.7%), Coal India(up 0.69%) and HDFC(up 0.6%) were among the top gainers in the Nifty pack.

On the other hand, IndusInd Bank(down 1.44%), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation(down 0.97%), Bharat Petroleum Corporation(down 0.91%), Power Grid Corporation of India(down 0.91%), Nestle India(down 0.89%), Bharti Airtel(down 0.79%), NTPC(down 0.7%), Hindustan Unilever(down 0.66%), UPL Ltd(down 0.57%) and State Bank of India(down 0.48%) were trading in the red.